All Quotes By Tag: Philosophy
“Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.”
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“You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.”
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“He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.”
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“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”
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“SCREW CHILDREN! That’s the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don’t comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on “screw children”, and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”
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“When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.”
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“Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?”
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“I’ll follow you, even to death—but I won’t live with you any more.”
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“… is it truly possible to steal a life, if… the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who ‘murders’ does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.”
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“Is it better to be loved or feared?”
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“When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
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“All my problems bow before my stubbornness.”
“High thoughts must have high language.”
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“The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label ‘Buddhism’ which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential…. In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men’s minds.”
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“Do you think you wear a mask?’‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’‘It’s a sad thought.’‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?”
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